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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interpose.

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Examples

  • Just as numerous are the enjoyments of reflection on such an end as that one shall appear to be a civil and moral and also a spiritual person, no matter what interposes which is unenjoyable.

    Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • “The Americans have plentifully enjoyed the delights and comforts, as well as the necessaries of life,” said the Newport Mercury, “and it is well known that an increase of wealth and affluence paves the way to an increase of luxury, immorality and profaneness, and here kind providence interposes; and as it were, obliges them to forsake the use of one of their delights, to preserve their liberty.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • But Eugene, as always, interposes some slippery slope concern that always exist in EVERY possible law and policy.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law  2010

  • "The structure of the Constitution interposes obstacles by design, in order to prevent the arrogation of power by one branch or one sovereign."

    ObamaCare's Latest Judicial Defeat David B. Rivkin Jr. 2011

  • We, however, are confronted by a different set of data; for us a new psychic material interposes itself between the dream-content and the results of our investigations: the latent dream-content, or dream-thoughts, which are obtained only by our method.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • We, however, are confronted by a different set of data; for us a new psychic material interposes itself between the dream-content and the results of our investigations: the latent dream-content, or dream-thoughts, which are obtained only by our method.

    You Stepped Out of a Dream Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elective monarchies of Europe.

    Is Barack Really “Slick Barry”? 2008

  • But Eugene, as always, interposes some slippery slope concern that always exist in EVERY possible law and policy.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law  2010

  • It cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elective monarchies of Europe.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

  • At the core of our design is a small browser kernel that manages the browser subsystems and interposes on all communications between them to enforce our new browser security features.

    Bookmarks for Jun 30 | FactoryCity 2008

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